The New Yorker newspaper had access to Pomerantz’s letter of resignation after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg dropped efforts to bring charges, which his predecessor Cyrus Vance had sought during months of investigations.
Not bringing the expresident to justice is “a serious failure of the judiciary,” the judge said in his resignation letter, which the newspaper agreed.
The attorney resigned from the investigation in February after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg abruptly stopped pursuing an indictment against Trump.
The letter explains why the prosecutor made the decision to resign and, for the first time, explicitly expresses his belief that prosecutors could have convicted the former president. Bragg’s decision not to proceed with the process initiated by Vance was “contrary to the public interest,” he wrote.
Pomerantz, in his letter, stated that Trump committed serious crimes and that the investigative team he was part of had no doubts “whether he committed crimes: he did it,” he said.
The judge, along with fellow prosecutor Carey R. Dunne, another senior prosecutor leading the investigation, planned to charge the former president with falsifying business records, specifically his financial statements, a crime in New York state.
For now, the investigation into Trump following Bragg’s decision raises questions, although his subsequent comments suggest his office is continuing to conduct the investigation, although it cannot legally comment on the specifics.
The prospect of an indictment is now uncertain, but if prosecutors win an indictment against Trump, it will be the most highprofile case ever brought by the Manhattan Attorney’s Office, and Trump would be the first former US president to be prosecuted. .
Prior to the current situation, much of the debate revolved around whether prosecutors could show that Trump knowingly misrepresented the value of his wealth in financial statements, the Times said, an element needed to prove the case.
Both Dunne and Pomerantz were confident that the office could prove that the former president intended to inflate the value of his golf clubs, hotels, and office buildings, but Bragg was not.
Meanwhile, the former Republican president still faces multiple investigations, including a civil investigation into the Trump Organization led by New York Attorney General Letitia James into fraud in his business practices.
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